While the Popcorn Time developers appear willing to push back against these DMCA notifications, GitHub likely will stay neutral and let courts decide if the infringement notifications should be ...

After shutting down for what appeared to be forever last fall, one of the most popular forks of Popcorn Time resurfaced last month, leading to much rejoicing among those who walk on the darker side of ...

A new project from the creators of Popcorn Time has appeared amid legal turmoil for the service: Butter. It’s a new version of the service “stripped down of the parts that made people wary.” As in, it ...

Long before Torrents-Time allowed pirates to stream movies and TV shows directly from their browsers, Popcorn Time was the piracy tool of choice. The software made waves when it was first introduced, ...

GitHub has shut down two repositories belonging to the video streaming BitTorrent client Popcorn Time after receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More For a brief moment, watching movies via BitTorrent was just as easy as ...

With Popcorn Time going offline at the start of this week, amid legal issues and the subsequent split of its coding team, many feared that the “Netflix for pirates” streaming app had been permanently ...

Pour one out for Popcorn Time today. The popular illegal streaming app has been deplatformed once again, it seems. Navigating to the service’s website displays its familiar cute little popcorn box — ...

PayPal-based assets of the companies behind Popcorn Time will be frozen until further notice, per a Virginia federal judge's preliminary injunction in a suit from several Hollywood companies who say ...

Over the past week, torrent-based movie and TV streaming service Popcorn Time has been slowly disintegrating. Under mounting pressure from legal and moral issues, a key segment of the development team ...

After posting what looked like a farewell message to its Twitter account on Friday, the widely used movie streaming website Popcorn Time shuttered its domain over supposed legal issues. Yet in its ...

The developers behind Popcorn Time announced Friday that they are shutting down the streaming video service. They took to publishing platform Medium to explain their decision, saying that “we need to ...